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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: New GNAT ports (was Re: Ada and Automotive Industry)
Date: 1997/01/09
Date: 1997-01-09T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5b257v$fo1$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.852774527@merv


dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

>Richard said

>"The only reason that I bothered about the placement of code at all
>was that the 8051 book I was studying included a memory test program
>that did this.  According to the Ada 83 LRM I had handy, you _couldn't_
>supply address clauses for code."

>That is wrong, Ada 83 did allow you to specify the address of a subprogram,

No, it is not wrong.  "code" is not a synonym of "subprogram".
The memory test program in question had reason to scatter _parts_ of
a subprogram around memory, and I appear to have got "Ada 83 didn't
let you supply address clauses for code _other_ than the start of a
subprogram" right.

-- 
My tertiary education cost a quarter of a million in lost income
(assuming close-to-minimum wage); why make students pay even more?
Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok; RMIT Comp.Sci.




  reply	other threads:[~1997-01-09  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-12-24  0:00 New GNAT ports (was Re: Ada and Automotive Industry) Robert Dewar
1996-12-27  0:00 ` New GNAT ports John Howard
1997-01-07  0:00 ` New GNAT ports (was Re: Ada and Automotive Industry) Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-01-07  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-08  0:00     ` Ken Garlington
1997-01-08  0:00     ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-01-08  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-07  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1997-01-07  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-08  0:00     ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-01-09  0:00       ` Dr. Peter E. Obermayer
1997-01-07  0:00   ` Ken Garlington
1997-01-08  0:00     ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-01-08  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-09  0:00         ` Richard A. O'Keefe [this message]
1997-01-11  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-11  0:00         ` Addresses of Subprograms (was: New GNAT ports) Larry Kilgallen
1997-01-13  0:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-01-14  0:00             ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-01-14  0:00               ` Fergus Henderson
1997-01-15  0:00             ` Richard Kenner
1997-01-09  0:00       ` New GNAT ports (was Re: Ada and Automotive Industry) Ken Garlington
1997-01-08  0:00   ` Karl Cooper
1997-01-08  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-09  0:00     ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-01-09  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-09  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-01-10  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-01-11  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-13  0:00       ` Richard A. O'Keefe
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